Russell Township man pleads in child rape porn case

A Russell Township man has admitted possessing videos of children being raped and sexually assaulted.

John S. Mobasseri, 39, was indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office Northern District of Ohio in April.

He pleaded guilty as charged Dec. 4 in U.S. District Court in Cleveland to one count of distribution of images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and one count of possession of child pornography.

He is scheduled to be sentenced March 19 by Judge Christopher A. Boyko.

Mobasseri allegedly received and distributed images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct between 2009 and 2017, according to the indictment.

On March 16, he allegedly had two USB storage devices, 14 computer disks and a computer that contained images of real minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

The files include titles such as “10Yo Preteen Raped (Incest).mpeg” and images such as children being blindfolded and sexually assaulted, as well as children being bound and masked while being sexually assaulted, according to court documents.

The case was investigated by the Department of Homeland Security and the Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.